Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation is a stand-alone capability/module included within IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps. When you have a license for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, you are entitled to install and use Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation brings together Terraform and ManageIQ for an integrated, Infrastructure Automation capability for IT Operators.

Infrastructure Automation delivers two distinct features:

  • Managed services, previously called Terraform and Service Automation. This feature uses self-service capabilities to orchestrate resources.

  • Infrastructure Management, previously called IBM Red Hat CloudForms. This feature provides capabilities for discovering, managing, and automating the deployment of VMs, cloud services and Kubernetes clusters.

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Infrastructure automation documentation

Getting started

Planning

Before you install IIBM Cloud Pak for AIOps - Infrastructure Automation, plan your installation, configuration, and overall cluster requirements. For more information, see Planning.

Installing

Infrastructure Automation is included with IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps and can be installed for use with IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps or as a stand-alone component. For information about, see Installing Infrastructure automation.

First steps with a deployment

Migrating data from another deployment

You can migrate infrastructure data, such as services data and appliances, to Infrastructure Automation from other products and services, such as IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, IBM Cloud Private, and IBM Red Hat CloudForms. For more information, see Migrating to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps.

Installing Infrastructure Management appliances

With Infrastructure Automation installed, you can install Infrastructure management appliances for your environment. These appliances can be installed on different supported platforms, such as Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vSphere, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). For more information, see Installing and upgrading appliances.

Understanding the user interface

Learn how to use the IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps console to access and use Infrastructure Automation tools and features. For more information, see User interface.

Infrastructure Automation use cases

Once set up, you and your DevOps teams can use Infrastructure Automation to provision, integrate, and manage IT and infrastructure.

Provisioning

Infrastructure Automation provide the capability to automate provisioning of infrastructure and virtual machine applications using Terraform and Ansible. Provisioning IT brings infrastructure-as-code support and helps with sharing templates across multiple instances and with provisioning repeatable infrastructure with confidence. This infrastructure-as-code support helps to provide you with a standardized environment for your developers. For more information, see Provisioning.

Managing infrastructure and inventory

Infrastructure Automation includes supported versions of Terraform that works across multiple cloud environments like RHEV, VMWare, OpenStack and multiple cloud providers, like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, and IBM Cloud. For more information, see Managing IT and infrastructure.

Managing integrations

With Infrastructure Automation, you can enable default integrations with ServiceNow, Ansible Tower, Turbonomic, and Business Process Manager. Once integrations are setup, the cloud infrastructures can be provisioned through the Infrastructure Automation catalog or through APIs. Changes and operations to the provisioned infrastructures go through Infrastructure Automation, which can synchronize the changes with other systems. For more information, see Managing integrations.